Furniture & Organization - July 2012

Post wedding and down to business in the apartment! Lots of online shopping and 1 big day trip to Ikea and we are well on our way to organization!

D building Ikea furniture

Installing blinds in the bedroom!

Bathroom organization

No more keeping our towels in the living room...

Working late nights on the apartment

Blinds

Hill Family Adventure Map

Psuedo kitchen area

Installing floating shelves

Ceiling Fan research

Progress!

My piles are shrinking!!

Apartment Progress - June 2012

We were away for 3 weeks in May/June and when we got back to the States on June 12th we were jet lagged and exhausted. We did order a mirror for the bedroom, and finally got our (first!) dinner table delivered.

Pile in a corner...

Yay new table!!

Trying to figure out how to werk this area...

Another pile I can't wait to get rid of!

Long mirror for our bedroom (to be painted white)

Bedroom... when the surfboard is gone, you know where D is

Wedding & Honeymoon

This apartment officially turned into our first married home on May 26th, 2012.
We had an amazing wedding weekend, and an unforgettable honeymoon.
We went backpacking for almost 3 weeks through Indonesia (Bali), Thailand (Phi Phi Islands, Phuket, Chumphon, Hua Hin, Bangkok) and Egypt (Cairo).
We collected a lot of amazing souvenirs to decorate our home with! This is one of the main reasons we hadn't start to hang anything in the apartment, because we knew we wanted to bring back artwork from our trip.

Riding camels in Cairo

Elephant safari in Bali

Visiting temples in Bali

Adventures about Phi Phi Island, Thailand

Hiking

Made it to "The Beach" - Maya Bay, Thailand

Snorkeling in Thailand

D surfing in Bali

Hiked Mt Batur in Bali

Got a Couch!

Our first couch! May 2012 - so exciting. 
Had it delivered, so difficult for them to get it up 5 flights of stairs. And it seemed impossible to get through the door but they did!
We also sold the small white couch on Craigslist which was nice to make some extra cash and avoid living room crowding.

Ah so amazing!

Painting - Living Room and Kitchen

As soon as D got done painting the bedroom, we started painting the living room and kitchen. We had picked out the colors before we moved so we could get this done ASAP.
Painted rooms = feels like home.
The yellow in the kitchen (and soon to be in bathroom) is Mellow Yellow. I'll need to remember that the grey is called in the living room. The grey is Down Pour and it is perfection.

Living room painted! Love this shade of grey - looks like purple/blue in some light. Doesn't take away  from the brick.

Mellow Yellow!

Happy & Bright :)

Again, S organizes while D paints

Tryin my best to decorate among the piles...

D got the surf board up in the room

All painted!

Happy entrance to the apartment